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Fortune
Jason Del Rey

Amazon's layoffs and leaked AI plans beg the question: Is the era of robot-driven unemployment upon us?

(Credit: Nicolás Ortega)

At a press event last year, Amazon Robotics chief technologist Tye Brady told Fortune that the idea that there’s a battle of robots versus humans inside Amazon’s warehouse network is a “myth.” 

“We build our machines to extend human capacity,” he said, sharing a vision of so-called collaborative robots that work alongside humans instead of fully replacing them. 

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